تهز قلبي بعد رقدته

تهز قلبي بعد رقدته

كالريح هزت جانب العلم

كالريح هزت جانب العلم

She stirs my heart after its slumber,

It shakes my heart after its slumber

Like the wind that shook the edge of the banner.

Like the wind shook the side of the flag

تمشي الهوينا في جوانبه

تمشي الهوينا في جوانبه

كالفجر يطرق حالك الظلم

كالفجر يطرق حالك الظلم

She treads softly through its recesses,

Our love walks through its aspects

Like dawn knocking at pitch-black darkness.

Like the dawn knocking on the darkness of your situation

ترمى به من نارها شررا

ترمى به من نارها شررا

فتثير فيه رواقد الهمم

فتثير فيه رواقد الهمم

She casts into it sparks from her fire,

It throws sparks of its fire upon it

And so rouses within it slumbering aspirations.

Igniting in it the embers of determination

وسمعت منها يوم أن طرقت

وسمعت منها يوم أن طرقت

قلبي رنين الهجر والسقم

قلبي رنين الهجر والسقم

And I heard from her, the day she knocked at

And I heard it when it knocked

My heart, the ringing of estrangement and sickness.

On my heart the echo of estrangement and illness

فكأنها نبع يفيض بما

فكأنها نبع يفيض بما

يحويه قلب الصب من ألم

يحويه قلب الصب من ألم

So she is like a spring overflowing with

It's as if it were a spring overflowing with

The pain held in the lovesick lover's heart.

What the heart of the young one contains of pain

وتعيد من ماضي ما شهدت

وتعيد من ماضي ما شهدت

عيناي من بؤس ومن نعم

عيناي من بؤس ومن نعم

And she brings back from my past what was seen

And it brings back from the past what

By my eyes—misery and blessings.

My eyes witnessed of misery and blessings

وتضيئه من بعد ظلمته

وتضيئه من بعد ظلمته

فكأنها تحييه من عدم

فكأنها تحييه من عدم

And she illuminates it after its darkness,

And it illuminates it after its darkness

As though she brings it to life from nothingness.

As if bringing it back from non-existence

وكأنه صحراء مجدبة

وكأنه صحراء مجدبة

ظمأى لقطر الصيب العرم

ظمأى لقطر الصيب العرم

And it is like a barren desert,

And it's as if it were a barren desert

Thirsting for drops of the fierce downpour.

Thirsty for a drop of ripe rain

وكأنها نهر تغمدها

وكأنها نهر تغمدها

بالجود من سلساله الشيم

بالجود من سلساله الشيم

And she is like a river that enfolded it

And it's as if it were a river covered

With bounty from its limpid waters—its virtues.

With generosity from a chain of decency

أو جنة الماضي قد انبثقت

أو جنة الماضي قد انبثقت

منها لنفسي زهرة العدم

منها لنفسي زهرة العدم

Or the garden of the past—there has sprung forth

Or the garden of the past that sprouted

From it, for my soul, the flower of nothingness.

From it for my soul the flower of nothingness